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Kay, A.L.; Rudd, A.C.; Davies, H.N.; Lane, R.A.; Bell, V.A.

Grid-to-Grid model estimates of soil moisture for Great Britain and Northern Ireland driven by observed data (1980 to 2011)

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https://doi.org/10.5285/c9a85f7c-45e2-4201-af82-4c833b3f2c5f
Gridded hydrological model soil moisture estimates on a 1km grid over Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the period Dec 1980 - Nov 2011 (units: m water/m soil). The data are provided in gridded netCDF files. There are separate files for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
To aid interpretation, two additional spatial datasets are provided:

1km x 1km grids identifying majority lake cells for a) Great Britain and b) Northern Ireland.

The data were produced as part of UK-SCAPE (UK Status, Change And Projections of the Environment; https://ukscape.ceh.ac.uk/, Work Package 2: Case Study - Water) a NERC-funded National Capability Science Single Centre award.
Publication date: 2021-12-14
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Format

NetCDF

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Raster
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent
1980-12-01    to    2011-11-30

Provenance & quality

This dataset is a model output from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model (Bell et al. 2009; https://doi.org10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.031) driven by observed data. The meteorological variables used were daily precipitation (CEH-GEAR; https://doi.org/10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca), daily min and max temperature (Met Office; http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/2a62652a4fe6412693123dd6328f6dc8) and monthly 40km grids of PE for short grass (MORECS; https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-1-227-1997). See Supporting Information for more details.

Licensing and constraints

This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:
Kay, A.L.; Rudd, A.C.; Davies, H.N.; Lane, R.A.; Bell, V.A. (2021). Grid-to-Grid model estimates of soil moisture for Great Britain and Northern Ireland driven by observed data (1980 to 2011). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/c9a85f7c-45e2-4201-af82-4c833b3f2c5f

Citations

Kay, A.L., Lane, R.A., & Bell, V.A. (2022). Grid-based simulation of soil moisture in the UK: future changes in extremes and wetting and drying dates. Environmental Research Letters, 17(7), 074029 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac7a4e
Kay, A.L., Bell, V.A., Davies, H.N., Lane, R.A. & Rudd, A.C. (2023) The UKSCAPE-G2G river flow and soil moisture datasets: Grid-to-Grid model estimates for the UK for historical and potential future climates. Earth System Science Data 15, 2533–2546. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2533-2023
Tso, C.-H.M., Blyth, E., Tanguy, M., Levy, P.E., Robinson, E.L., Bell, V., Zha, Y., & Fry, M. (2023). Multiproduct Characterization of Surface Soil Moisture Drydowns in the United Kingdom. In Journal of Hydrometeorology (Vol. 24, Issue 12, pp. 2299–2319). American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-23-0018.1

Correspondence/contact details

Dr. Ali Rudd
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Authors

Kay, A.L.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Rudd, A.C.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Davies, H.N.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lane, R.A.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Bell, V.A.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Other contacts

Rights holders
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
environment
INSPIRE theme
Soil
Keywords
Great Britain , Grid-to-Grid , Hydrology , Modelling , Northern Ireland , Soil moisture , UK-Scape
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1
Last updated
02 September 2024 16:09